I bet most every place has an unusual landmark or strange story. Unfortunately, the news oftentimes doesn’t spread beyond the locals.

My hometown, Clintonville, long has claimed to have a portion of the Great Wall of China.

The landmark was erected in Clintonville in 1924 after representatives of the Four Wheel Drive Auto Co., which was doing business in China, secured permission to take relics from a dismantled wall near Canton, China, and ship them home. The bricks and stone pillars were reassembled as a wall, which now stands at Pioneer Park.

"Never in the history of China, and this dates back thousands of years, has that country permitted the exporting of a portion of its many ancient monuments because of the religious and historical incidents that are interwoven with them," The Clintonville Tribune reported at the time. "Clintonville therefore may take pride in possessing a monument the like of which is nowhere else to be found in any country except China."

Sometime later, people began referring to the landmark as being part of the China Wall, Chinese Wall or Great China Wall. A 1975 Post-Crescent article described it as a "section of the Great Wall of China" and detailed how Walter A. Olen, president of the FWD, worked with Chinese leader Sun Yat-sen to secretly remove the artifacts from China. The story says they were smuggled out of the country disguised as auto parts.

Marilyn Berkvam, president of the Clintonville Area Historical Society, doesn't want to destroy the mystique surrounding the wall, but she doubts the relics were part of the Great Wall. Olen was in Canton, which isn't anywhere near the Great Wall. She said the relics probably came from a city wall.

My current home, Neenah, has its own peculiarities, starting with an Honest John rocket mounted outside Neenah High School. The Honest John was the U.S. Army’s first nuclear-armed surface-to-surface missile.

Neenah's 27-foot rocket dates to the mid-1960s and was placed in front of the school in 1988 to serve as a mascot of the Neenah Rockets. Larry Lewis, principal at the time, said the rocket was "a symbol of propelling us to excellence and discovery of new horizons,” according to an Oshkosh Northwestern story.

Surely there are countless other interesting sights and stories out there. That’s where I need your help. Please tell me about the extraordinary landmarks that make your home special, and I will put them together in a story. My contact information is listed below.